Sisyphus Merriam Webster Definition

EXERCISE: WRITE A HAIKU IN WHICH A SISYPHIAN EFFORT IS PERFORMED.

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King Sisyphus's Last Trick (Haiku String)

Rock who had never
run away for boyish games
or adventure, now

could be measured by
his ever thinning waistline;
gone, a boy's corners.

Mother, a black sea
boulder, hated the king who
turned boy to pebble.

How quick kings forget
a mother's vengeance on fleets
of gold and soldiers,

on tricksters who turn
the effort of love to sand,
feet laughing at gods.


JEA

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